Elizabeth Blackwood
pharmacy
Janssen Pharmaceutica
Australia
Biography
Elizabeth Blackwood is Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, Pharmaceuticals. She is a member of the Pharmaceuticals Group Operating Committee (GOC) and the Johnson & Johnson Quality & Compliance Leadership Team. She assumed this role in January 2015. In this role, Liz is responsible for setting quality strategy and leading the implementation of quality processes and systems to achieve world-class performance in the Pharmaceuticals sector. Previously, Liz served as Vice President, Quality Systems & Strategy, where she led the development of a common set of Johnson & Johnson quality standards and the supporting Information Technology infrastructure. Liz’s guidance was critical to the successful deployment of these tools. Her purview also included Customer Logistics & Services Quality and Operations Readiness and Convergence. Liz first joined Johnson & Johnson in 2000, and returned in 2012 after four years with GE Healthcare as Senior Vice President, Global Quality Assurance where she was responsible for establishing one global quality management system across more than 100 sites. Prior to joining GE Healthcare, she worked at LifeScan, Inc.; Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.; Ethicon, Inc.; and Johnson & Johnson Corporate Quality & Compliance Services. Her last position at Johnson & Johnson before joining GE Healthcare was Worldwide Vice President, Quality, Regulatory and Medical Affairs, at LifeScan, Inc. Liz holds an Associate of Science degree in manufacturing technology from Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, and a Master of Science degree in Management from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also serves on the United States Food & Drug Administration Good Manufacturing Practices Advisory Committee and is a voting member of the International Organization for Standardization Technical Advisory Groups (ISO TAG) 176 Quality Systems Standards.
Research Interest
research and development
